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SEC Football by the Numbers: Top 10 from Week 2

2 TDs were scored by Mississippi State nose guard Jeffery Simmons in the Bulldogs' 57-21 victory over Louisiana Tech on Saturday. In the first quarter, Simmons blocked a punt from the Louisiana Tech 24-yard line and recovered the ball in the end zone. In the third quarter, with Louisiana Tech on Mississippi State's 2-yard line, the 301-pound Simmons picked up a fumble and returned it 90 yards for a touchdown.

2 Consecutive South Carolina games have featured a TD kickoff return by South Carolina WR Deebo Samuel. In the Gamecocks' season-opening game, Samuel returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a TD in a 35-28 victory over North Carolina State on Sept. 2. On Saturday, Samuel had another 97-yard kickoff return for a TD in South Carolina's 31-13 victory over Missouri. On the first snap after the kickoff return, the Gamecocks intercepted a pass, and, on the next play, Samuel ran 25 yards for a TD, scoring 15 seconds after his previous TD as South Carolina took a 14-10 lead. Samuel's three TD kickoff returns are a school career record, and they've come in his past five games.

4 Consecutive victories have been recorded by Clemson against Auburn, the first time that has happened in their 51-game series. Clemson defeated Auburn 14-6 on Saturday after winning 19-13 in 2016, 26-19 in 2012 and 38-24 in 2011. Clemson's winning streak comes after Auburn had won the previous 14 games in the series. Before its current winning streak, Clemson hadn't defeated Auburn since Nov. 24, 1951. Auburn leads the series 34-15-2.

5 Of Georgia's 10 wins since Kirby Smart became the Bulldogs' coach last season have featured fourth-quarter comebacks, including Saturday's 20-19 victory over Notre Dame. Georgia trailed the Fighting Irish 19-17 until Rodrigo Blankenship kicked a 30-yard field goal with 3:34 to play. Last season, the Bulldogs beat North Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky and TCU after trailing in the fourth quarter. Georgia also beat Auburn in a game that was tied in the fourth quarter. Georgia lost games in 2016 to Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech after the Bulldogs led in the fourth quarter.

11 Sacks were recorded by Clemson in its 14-6 victory over Auburn on Saturday, the most sacks for Clemson in a game since it also had 11 in a 35-6 victory over Utah State on Oct. 16, 2004. The 11 sacks are the most allowed by Auburn in a game in records dating to the 1996 season. During the previous 21 seasons, the most sacks registered against Auburn were 10 by Florida in a 24-10 victory over the Tigers on Oct. 18, 1997. Beginning with the 1996 season, Auburn's QB has been sacked at least six times in 10 games, and the Tigers have won one of those games - beating Georgia 24-17 on Nov. 10, 2001, despite suffering seven sacks. Against Clemson, the sacks resulted in a 72-yard deduction from Auburn's rushing total, allowing Clemson to outrush Auburn 99 yards to 38 instead of being outrushed 110-99. Saturday's game was the 10th in a row in the series in which the winning team also had the most rushing yards. The most recent Auburn-Clemson game in which the winner was outrushed came in 1968, when Auburn won 21-10 even though Clemson had the edge in rushing 162-132.

12 Consecutive non-conference games played by LSU have featured a 100-yard rusher for the Tigers, including Saturday's 45-10 victory over Chattanooga in which RB Derrius Guice ran for 102 yards. Guice also has recorded 100-yard games against BYU, Louisville, Southern Miss and Jacksonville State to keep the streak going. The streak started with 100-yard games by Leonard Fournette against Wisconsin, Texas Tech, Western Kentucky, Eastern Michigan, Syracuse, Notre Dame and New Mexico State. The most recent LSU non-conference game that didn't feature a 100-yard rusher for the Tigers is a 31-0 victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Sept. 13, 2014. Fournette topped LSU's rushers in that game with 52 yards.

16 Years since an Alabama QB ran for more yards than Jalen Hurts had in the Crimson Tide's 41-10 victory over Fresno State on Saturday. Boosted by a 55-yard run, Hurts picked up 154 yards on 10 carries, the most yardage for an Alabama QB since Tyler Watts ran for 162 yards in a 37-36 loss to South Carolina on Sept. 29, 2001. Hurts ran for two TDs and also threw a TD pass in the game.

66 Consecutive victories have been recorded over unranked teams by Alabama after the Crimson Tide defeated Fresno State 41-10. Alabama's streak is the longest in the nation by 50 games. The next-longest active streak for victories over unranked teams is 16 games, achieved by Wisconsin. The Crimson Tide hasn't lost to an unranked team since falling to Auburn 17-10 on Nov. 24, 2007. Wisconsin's most recent loss to an unranked team is a 10-6 setback against Iowa on Oct. 3, 2015.

87 Yards were lost on a single play by Louisiana Tech in its 57-21 defeat by Mississippi State on Saturday. On a second-and-goal play at the Mississippi State 6-yard line early in the fourth quarter, a bad snap resulted in a "Football Follies"-style chase of the ball down the field. Louisiana Tech WR Cee Jay Powell finally recovered the bouncing ball at the Louisiana Tech 7-yard line, resulting in an 87-yard loss and leaving Louisiana Tech facing third-and-goal from 93 yards out. The lost yardage came off Louisiana Tech's rushing stats leaving the Bulldogs with 152 rushing yards in the game. They compiled 239 yards on their other 49 carries.

489 Passing yards were compiled by Ole Miss QB Shea Patterson in a 45-23 victory over UT Martin on Saturday. Patterson's performance set a school single-game record and ranks the 14th-best in SEC history. Patterson completed 32-of-43 passes with five touchdowns and one interception.

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